Out With A Bang | Marvel’s Axis: Part III Review

<p>The X-Men want to nuke the world&&num;8217&semi;s human population with a &&num;8220&semi;Gene Bomb&period;&&num;8221&semi; and the Avengers are too late or beaten bloody&period; Who&&num;8217&semi;ll save the day&quest; A psychotic&comma; mass murdering&comma; redneck named Cletus Cassidy&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s who&excl; Yes&comma; this is <em>Axis<&sol;em> at its finest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That&&num;8217&semi;s right&excl; Carnage saved the world&period; Realizing what terrible a person he was after being Ko&&num;8217&semi;d with the Inversion Spell&comma; he wrapped himself and his symbiote around the bomb&comma; giving his life to save us all&period; And of course&comma; singing &&num;8220&semi;And this bird&comma; you cannot change&excl;&&num;8221&semi; the entire way&period;  The only witness to it all was&comma; of course&comma; Peter Parker&comma; who swore to build a statue in his enemy&&num;8217&semi;s honor that &&num;8220&semi;plays Free Bird on a loop&period;&&num;8221&semi; Aww&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;01&sol;05045658&sol;axis8-3&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-70832 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;01&sol;05045658&sol;axis8-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"spidey and carnage" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"223" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; we have a retcon to beat all retcons&colon; a giant middle finger aimed at 21st Century Fox&period; Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s hereby drawn a line in the sand&period; Here&comma; Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver aren&&num;8217&semi;t Magneto&&num;8217&semi;s children&period; &lpar;Someone wants to put them being mutants to rest and bolster their Inhuman lines for movie sales&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m not a fan of this retcon&comma; to say the least&comma; but from a business standpoint&comma; I have trouble finding fault&period; My Google-Fu fails me&comma; yet I&&num;8217&semi;m certain that mutant power inhibitor collars &lpar;employed since Genosha was a slave colony for mutants&rpar; stopped Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch from using their powers quite as efficiently&period; Deadpool talked Apocalypse – <em>Apocalypse<&sol;em> out of all people – into helping save the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Axis<&sol;em> brought us many things comic fans never thought they&&num;8217&semi;d see outside of a &&num;8220&semi;What If&quest;&&num;8221&semi; comic&period; Seeing Thor and Apocalypse throw down was the highlight of the issue and easily one of the greatest fights of the event&period; Plus&comma; we got to see old man Steven Rogers save his own nemesis&comma; Red Skull&comma; from certain death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;01&sol;05045647&sol;cap-saves-red-skull&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-70835 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;01&sol;05045647&sol;cap-saves-red-skull&period;jpg" alt&equals;"cap saves red skull" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"223" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We got a look into the darkest parts of Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s protagonists in a far greater way than we did in <em>Original Sin<&sol;em>&period; The villains knew what kind of world they&&num;8217&semi;d be returning to in the inversion spell was reversed&comma; but they saved the world anyway&period; Some of them wanted to go back to being monsters&period; Still others found ways to stay inverted&comma; while most were just terrified of what happens when the Earth&&num;8217&semi;s heroes are inverted&period; Nevertheless&comma; these &&num;8216&semi;heroes&&num;8217&semi; proved to be the dictators&comma; curmudgeons&comma; the monsters of our nightmares and&comma; in one case&comma; an Adonis beyond compare&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; <em>Axis<&sol;em> – as a whole  – is a worthy read with dire some consequences and permanent &&num;8220&semi;inversions&period;&&num;8221&semi;  Tony Stark will remain as the Superior Iron Man&comma; pushing &&num;8220&semi;bodies by design&&num;8221&semi; for an annual fee&period; On the flip side&comma; we have a new Wolverine&colon; Victor Creed&comma; a&period;k&period;a Sabretooth&period; Will these changes make for good stories or just some groan worthy moments&quest; We look forward to the rest of 2015 to find out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What did you think of Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s Axis&quest; Is anyone else as tired of Wolverine and Wolverine adjacent as I am&quest; Who likes Iron Man better as a jerk anyway&quest; Let us know&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;